Don’t suffer another minute of annoyance: If you are feel psychologically tortured by insensitive jerks while on Facebook, there are ways to nip their behavior in the bud.
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An ongoing debate continues on how to keep younger Facebookers safe on the site, which already enforces a rule that users be at least 13 years old.

Some parents believe the easiest and most effective handling of the situation is to simply say “no” even to their kids who meet the minimum age requirement for creating accounts on the social network. Others are looking for some safe middle ground that lets them know what their children are up to online.

With that in mind, here are seven reviews of products that help monitor young ones’ activities on Facebook.
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Some 20,000 children under age 13 get kicked off of Facebook for lying about their age every day.
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Barack and Michelle Obama are addressing the topic of bullying, both cyber and otherwise, in a summit that will livestream on Facebook tomorrow at 12:20 pm Eastern Standard Time.
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What do Facebook, Justin Beiber, and MTV have in common?
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Facebook has hosted two livestreams in as many days focusing on the topic of increasing safety for minors who use the social network. The suggestions offered in both presentations has relevance for adults and teenagers alike. With that in mind, here are five suggestions on how to help everyone on Facebook have a safer experience on the site.
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Facebook shut down a page yesterday after receiving complaints from a New York school that it hosted multiple instances of cyber bullying.
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Facebook has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to deliver localized alerts for America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response, more commonly known as Amber. Local alerts pages for each U.S. state are starting to send updates to users via the news feed, formally announced at a press conference this morning.
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In a world where words such as ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ belong to everyday vocabulary, it is no wonder that the traditional parental rules are taking on a modern twist. Long gone are the days when their biggest concern was the strange, old man hanging around outside the ice-creamery. Now, with instant access to strangers worldwide, stranger danger has taken on a whole new meaning.
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If Facebook were a country, its population of 500 million would make it one of the world’s giants – in the real world, only China and India have bigger populations. Of course, part of the job of any country is to keep its citizens safe.
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